Pencil-holder.



Patexited Dec.

INVENTOR WITNESSES:

oNrrEn sTA'rnsrATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD CHARLES REITER, OF ROCKVILLE, CONNECTICUT.

PENCIL-HOLDER.

1'0 a-ZZ whom it may concern:

lie it known that l. ll-nwum t. RtIl'll-Ilt. residing at Roekville. in the eouttt' of To]- land and State of Conneetieut, have invented a new and Improved .leneil -llolder. of \vhieh the following is a speeitieation.

Thisjiuveutiou has tor its object to provide a simple and inexpensive deviee adapted for being readily applied on the ordinary writing peueil or 'touut'ain pens and is tnore espeeially designed as a eonvenieut means for holding the peneil or pen by the month without direet eoutaet with the moutlt and so that the user will not absorb the eoloring matter from the peueil body or lead or ink eoutained by .the peneil or pen body.

- Another objeet of my invention is to pro vide a holding deviee that ean be conveniently applied to any of the eonnnon styles of peueils or pens and whieh, itt addition to forming a eouveuieut mouth grip, aets as a means for seeurely holding the pen or peneil to whieh it is attaehed. in the vest poeket. and tiually. my invention has l'or it's purpose to provide a holding deviee ol' the elntraeter stated. eoustrueted to ell'eetively serve the purposes.metttioned and whieh is eapable of being; st. eeouomieallv made that it ean serve as an a 'vertising novelty.

.\l v iu\ention eonsists in a dev-iee tor the general purposes speeil'ied that embodies a peeul'iar 'eonstruetion and arrangement of parts as. will be hereiualler l'ully explained.

"speeitieally pointed out in the appended 'elaims and illustrated iii the aeeompauyutg preferred form ot my invention. Fig. 4, is a similar view looking at the rubber ttp reee viug end thereof. Fig. 5, is a cross see-.. tion of the form ol' my devtee shown tn l tg. Fig. (3. illustrates how the device is ut.|l--

ized l'or holding the pencil in tlte vest pot-ket. Fig. 7. is a view ot a blank form before it is bent to shape. .Fig. 8,- illustrates a modilied l'orm of my invention, hereina-l'ter referred to.

In the praetieal application of m Invention 1 stamp or otherwise create a lank to the shape shown in Fig. 7, the same being made from a thin spring metalsheet. The

Specification of Letters Patent.

\pplication filed January 19. 1905. Serial No. 473,131.

Patented Dee. '7, 1909.

and the said tapered portions at the point near where they merge withthe body portion proper should have an aperture 14, the said apertures, when the blank is folded upon itself as shown in Fig. 5, aliniug so as to reeeive the rivet pill 15 that holds the two ends of the holder firmly together for a reason readily apparent by referring to the drawing. I

The body portion is bent upon itself to form a elamping loop or sleeve a; for sliding upon the peneil or pen body as best shown in Fig. 5. by reference to which it will be notieed that to provide for holding the peneil or other body to less diameter than the sleeve ,1 tirmly therein, an elastic plug 16 is squeezed and projeeted through the opening and the said plug may be firmly held in place by its expansive lllitl'lOt'h'lllg with the edges of the opening 10 or by passing the pin 7 through it and the apertures l8-18 in the sleeve. The member to also serves as an eraser rubber and thus avoids the expense of lilting t he end of the peneilwiththe usual rubber tipped holder, therebymaking theeost of the peueil and my improved holder therefor not appreeiably greater than the cost of Hltttltltilt'tlll'fl of the present style of rubber tipped peneil and with the advantage iii the use of my holder in that the saute can be readily utilized as an advertising tnedium by stamping the ad." on the body thereof by the same. dies that stamp out the blank form.

\Vheu the 'blank form [0 is folded upon itself the T-ends lap upon each other and form a double T-head and since the nee-ks of such heads are joined by the rivet they are held togethertightly enough to form a pair of opposing clampin ends, either of which when the pencil is s ipped tn the vest pocket can be utilized for shpping over and straddling the edge of the .pocket to, securely clamp the pen or pencil in the pocket, see Fig. 6, andthus prevent the same from fulling out and becoming easil lost. 'nsteadfof forming the b ank as shown'tn Fig. 7, it may be made i n other shapes, for example, it may be of such shape that when it is bent up it will have a tubular holder or sleeve portion 20 as shown in Fig. 8 and the tubular socket 21 projected at right ailigles to the part 20 for receiving the elastic P From the foregoing taken in connection with the drawing the complete construction and manner my invention may be utilized and its advantages will be readily apparent.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is: i

1. As a new article, a holder comprising a sleeve like body, having a T-head at one side, its other side being shaped to receive an elastic plug.

2. As a new article, a holder formed of sheet metal, having a sleeve like body, one

side ofwhich has a T-head extension and -the other side of which is apertured to receive an elastic plug.

3. As a new article, a holder ofthe character described formed of a sheet metal member bent upon itself to form a tubular portion andlaterally extended T-head members that lap upon each other and an elastic plug held to extend within the tubular portion.

A device for the purpose described formed of a sheet metal. member having a tubular body portion, one side of which has an aperture, the other side of which is. extended to form two T-head members that lap upon each other, said members being riveted together at their necks, and a rubber plug that fits in the aperture of the tubular portion and has its ends projected inside and outside of the said portion.

5. A blank for holders of the character stated, comprising a body portion centrally apertured, the opposite ends of the body portion being tapered to a reduced Width to form necks, and the ends of the. necks being extended laterally to form Theads.

' EDl/VARD CHARLES REITER.

Witnesses:

- L. T. TINGIER,

JOHN W. WATKINS. 

